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Peer reviewedWeil, Dominique – Langue Francaise, 1972
Special issue devoted to research and the teaching of French in the elementary school. (VM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Educational Environment, Family Environment
Download full textMcCarthy, Dorothea, Ed.; And Others – 1953
This booklet contains four articles that discuss factors influencing language growth. The first, "The Child's Equipment for Language Growth" by Charlotte Wells, examines what the child needs for language learning, how the child uses his equipment for language growth, and what school factors facilitate the child's use of his equipment for language…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Educational Environment, Environmental Influences
Goldstein, Howard – 1981
Experimental research on the environmental conditions that promote generative language learning is reviewed. Recombinative generalization is introduced as a process that enables individuals to express and to comprehend novel utterances. This review focuses on the use of a miniature linguistic system paradigm to explore how recombinative…
Descriptors: Child Language, Educational Environment, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Carrington, Lawrence D. – 1989
The study of language acquisition requires that the analyst identify the learner's target and have available a grammatical description of the target. In the case of the Caribbean Creole environment, special caution is required in identifying the learner's target because substantial variation is intrinsic to the input and ambient language. Existing…
Descriptors: Child Language, Creoles, Educational Environment, Environmental Influences
Cazden, Courtney B. – 1972
This paper considers language development among children and discusses the influence of the learning environment in the acquisition of language use as distinct from language structure. The results of the five studies reported here suggest that the child is aided by what he is encouraged to say, not simply by what he hears, and that adults seem to…
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication Skills, Educational Environment, Educational Experiments
Johns, Kenneth M. – 1988
The purpose of this fastback is to help teachers find out how children acquire a second language and explore the linguistic foundations on which sound English as a Second Language (ESL) curricula can be developed. It is intended for the regular classroom teacher, not the ESL specialist. Central findings in research on second language learning…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Child Language, Children, Developmental Stages
Wells, Gordon – 1986
Based on a longitudinal study of language development, this book charts the language development of 32 British children from shortly after their first birthdays to the end of their elementary education, and explores a number of questions related to this development. Chapter 1 describes the children and their families, chapter 2 discusses the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment
